“…The studies were performed in Australia, 12 Spain, 38,39 Korea, 40,41 Iran, 42,43 New Zealand, 8 and China, 36,37 respectively. Five studies included only male subjects, 8,14,37,39,41 three studies included both male and female subjects, 40,42,43 and two studies did not report the sex of the participants. 36,38 Most of the studies used no intervention in the control group, 8,36,38,40–43 one used standard massage as a conventional physiotherapy control, 14 and two studies used static stretching as a control and a combination of static stretching and vibration as the intervention.…”